Posted on 03/04/2020 8:00:14 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Liberal education: Working hard doesn’t get you anywhere. It is rich white folks who keep you down. Why bother?
I always think of Dave Ramsey’s distinction between being broke and being poor.
Broke is a temporary state of being that can be overcome with some work and discipline. Poor is a state of mind that is mostly attributable to a lack of discipline and is far more difficult to overcome.
“Most Americans don’t believe people are rich because they work hard or poor because they don’t”
And people are not smart because they read and study or dumb because they don’t.
People don’t smell because they take showers or stink because they don’t.
Another “dividend” of our educational system. Just blame someone and give up. America has nothing to be proud of./s
Old: Admiration for innovators, inventors, captains of industry, Founders and common people who sacrificed to work to build America and those who risked or gave their lives in the armed forces. Ten Commandments on many school buildings and post offices.
New: No responsibility-—just blame-—for any shortcomings. Males at fault for any defeat or failure by a feminist woman. (True story: Woman I know told me her female psychiatrist concluded that nearly all of women’s psychological problems come from the harm done by the sexist male dominant society.)
And the oft heard variations on: He had no choice but a life of being a career criminal-—not enough government benefits, he came from a low income family, no opportunities for a person of color compared to whites, and America is set up to favor the top elites.
False choice in the poll question. I’ve known poor people who work hard. They remain poor because they make easier or worse choices in other aspects in their lives. A 12-pack of Busch is more satisfying than putting the money in an investment account. Watching The Batchelor is more fun than working on the house.
The article missed another major point... if you were the smartest person in the world and studied harder than anyone else, but you picked an unmarketable field of study... you are not likely to get ahead. My brother's kids all got degrees in “environmental science” because they all believe that “global warming” is going to destroy the world. For some reason none of them have managed to get a decent job.
I'm well off because I worked hard to take advantage of the advantages I was provided with by my hard-working parents. Just having had more advantages in life than someone else isn't a ticket to affluence.
I know many people who had every opportunity presented to them do little other than squander each and every one, usually through the lack of hard work on their own part.
Living beneath your means is an important skill.
Some people are rich because they worked for it. But others are rich because they are corrupt and they committed financial crimes to obtain a lot of money. They basically did no work at all. There are a lot of politicians that fit in that category.
Shell companies used to transfer US tax dollars back to them for example.
Exactly, it's ambition that is the driver. Sure once you're rich you don't have to work as hard. And as you gain experience you learn to work smarter, not harder. The biggest "gap" is the ambition gap. Some people are happy to just take whatever crumbs get thrown their way, others want more. And in a healthy society wealth and ambition should parallel each other.
Biased propaganda
I think the same way. To say that the “rich” don’t work is just wrong. Oh sure, there are those that don’t, through inheritance mainly but SOMEONE at SOME POINT had to work to get that money amassed. It just doesn’t fall in their laps. They start a company, put in long hours and take a lot of risks to build that company and make it profitable. The kids today think that they need to come out of college with a house/car/checking account that their parents have. They don’t think about the fact that mom and dad are married 30+ years and have worked to build up what they as their children have always taken for granted. Mom and Dad needed to teach kiddo some hard lessons.
The merchants of victimology have been effective in spreading their message.
“Living beneath your means is an important skill.”
Very true. My dad always taught us “Pay yourself first.” In other words, put away 10% in savings or investments for your future BEFORE you pay anybody else (presuming, of course, you have enough left over to pay your bills).
My college was back in the early- and mid 70s. Maybe it’s the same guy?
TAXES PLAY A BIG ROLE TO. Being in a conservative state also helps. TN has NO STATE INCOME TAX except for investors. SALES TAX and we run a surplus despite the LIBTARDS SPENDING ON CRAP.
This is what happens when you have 2 generations of communists teaching in our schools and colleges.
“You didn’t build that” - sums up the mindset of the young, impressionable dregs that think their lot in life is handed to them, rather than earned.
Precious few people are handed such a poor lot in life that they can’t climb out of it, and with good friends, they can also.
Mike Tyson is a classic example. Give an idiot a lot of money and all you have is a rich idiot.
Doubt it, but I imagine technicians had the same approach to life in California as they did in Pennsylvania, at least back then.
You notice that increasing wealth and prosperity for average people was increasing in the 1940’s and 50’s. Then, it flattened out. Are we sure that the “war on poverty” wasn’t really a War on the Poor to keep them down.
As of several years ago, we had spent over 17 trillion dollars on the welfare programs that had the great success of keeping about 20% of 13% of the population in poverty. Imagine if that same money were spent on actually helping them instead of paying them to not work or even try.
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